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Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Eezyville@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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So they got all that money from Uncle Sam's CHIPS Act only to lay off 10,000 employees and make themselves "lean". Govt funded unemployment.

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[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 65 points 3 months ago (5 children)

In January 2022, Intel announced an initial $20 billion investment that will generate 3,000 jobs,

Not sure why Biden didn't put any terms and conditions on giving away all this money 💰?

[–] arc@lemm.ee 54 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The US and Europe has become acutely aware that too much semi-conductor manufacturing has been outsourced to China and other Asian nations and they're trying to build some back domestically. So that's the geopolitical reason for it.

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Maybe the US should consider Intel's massive reduction in staff and faulty chips as a national security threat and nationalize them.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

That's the justification. Don't you know what kind of people gets into high governmental positions?

Making some friends rich was the reason.

Still, this sucks huge donkey balls, a lot of very smart and very knowledgeable people, maybe more valuable than a 100 (ok, maybe 10, or maybe 5, it's a rhetorical device) copies of me, work in such inefficient structures, while there could have been a dozen TSMCs over the world with their competencies.

I have come to agree that nations have interests, but their governmental structures generally work against those. There's a wheel to be invented there.

[–] uis@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not sure what this has to do "Not sure why Biden didn't put any terms and conditions on giving away all this money 💰?". Wait, I do. This is question exactly why Biden didn't put condition of bringing production back.

- Russian troll, according to some.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

$20 billion investment that will generate 3,000 jobs

Lol that's $6,666,667 per job. I could create a job with that much money: counting all my fucking money.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Actually, yeah, one can pick 3k people and just pay them 4k$ per month indefinitely till they die and something will remain.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

These corps are slimy Fucks. It probably did create 3k jobs. Low paying, temporary jobs. These layoffs are probably other jobs

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The U.S. should sue the shit out of them.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

It seems you are confusing US for EU

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 6 points 3 months ago

The string is that they use it for the creation of a domestic chip plant, not salaries for existing employees.